To the editors:
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I keep wondering when you people of the fourth estate are going to get to the basics which are the issues we voters should use to elect any official. You know, stuff like qualifications. What have they done for us in their other political jobs? How have they voted on important issues affecting the city? Show us where they live. Does it look as if it’s been napalmed like Evans’ 4th ward? How would they have handled the Steve Cokely hatefulness? (I know it’s hindsight, let’s hear it anyway.) Do any of the black candidates have a mind and agenda of their own? They all speak as if Washington was the last black man with a brain. I see so many real issues you people continue to ignore for all this useless drivel.
I am also puzzled as to why you think Evans has all black votes in his hip pocket. As a black person I find it insulting that this man thinks my vote is owned and can be left to him. Harold didn’t get it his second time around and he wasn’t the keeper of a neighborhood in as horrid a condition as the 4th ward. Tim Evans takes too much for granted. He should go back to polysilly Univ. and clean his nasty house before trying to clean the city’s. Besides that the man is totally and completely classless as evinced by his gathering busloads of people from the napalmed 4th ward and taking them over to the Regal Theater to boo Sawyer on national TV. I don’t especially like Sawyer, but that is not necessary to respect the office. When I saw that I wondered if those who would follow someone of this political depth wouldn’t wonder just where would this kind of political brilliance lead this already politically troubled city?
Maryanne Burgess
